Good news. WiFi works out of the box (WPK on ra0/rt2860sta) with a frugal install of upup-476 on my EeePC901 (did not work with previous upups)

The Package Manager configuration does not wok correctly for me. I choose up to 5 radio buttons (as it advises) but the tabs which appear (or rather not appear) seems somewhat random with great difficulty in getting any of the puppy x official ones to appear.

Rgds Mike

Forgot to add I also installed Atomix from the Jaunty repo with no problems.

in the previous Alpha I was able to tweak the Xorg settings to get my max monitor resolution. Not so this version.
Maybe I will find some clues here:
http://tuxradar.com/content/modify-xorgconf-better-performance
So I changed to Vesa and got the max resolution that way
Valide (using devx) was crashing on me - I believe there is a later version that is more stable. However I was able to code genie from the command line.
Also noticed 3 different search programs and be interested which people prefer?
Also do people 'trim the fat' when installing packages - do you notice a difference?
Also the pctorrent downloader . . . Does it work? I find transmission in 4.2.1 works but have had no luck with pctorrent How about you?

Just like to say that for day to day use I boot into 4.2.1
To be on the cutting edge the Alpha 9 is great fun and already very usable _________________YinYana AI BuddhismLast edited by Lobster on Sun 24 May 2009, 07:45; edited 1 time in total

Also do people 'trim the fat' when installing packages - do you notice a difference?

If you get a package from the Puppy repos then no, these are usually trimmed already. But if getting the package from the Jaunty repos then yes. There are usually helpfiles and dev files that are not needed, but be warned: due to Puppy's skinny nature, if you download packages from the Jaunty repos they may require many dependencies, these should be taken care of by Petget... (is that fancy new package manager still called Petget? It can get other formats too.)

When I first tried to use Pawdioconverter in Woof alfa 9 in the Windows computer that wouldn't run Pcdripper, it would not go. Pawdioconverter would go to the final step before it actually began ripping and converting, then stop there, without a console window showing or anything happening. What finally made it work was to choose the option to convert in the background, without the console window.

If there's a similar option in Pcdripper, not to show the rxvt window while ripping, I'll try that soon in the Windows machine that won't run Pcdripper in Woof but will in earlier versions of Puppy.

Edit: Pcdripper does not have the option to not show the console while it's running.

failed downloading busybox pet specified within woof a9. It did not exist, nor did the specified linux kernel(the v4 ticks you spoke of in blog). I can manually correct my own, but figure there was a reason for this. minimal others, this was the based on a ubuntu distro_specs setup. I saw that you sh#!canned the others whilst you work, faac fails to dl for debian, but is fine in ubuntu. You can dl the faac for debian from main deb repo. I think i can plow ahead with the debian and slack issues, but want (and feel it makes sense) to use the exact same kernel as you for now. You should do a side by side of the deb and ubuntu builds. i was unsided upfront, but now have taken the debian base side. i built a7 deb and used the upup matching release. three test systems, deb loaded and ran better. Maybe a hybridized deb/ubuntu? ubuntu has plowed ahead on peripherial support, which has given it a good edge in that reguard. That was only due to the financial backing of Canocial. maybe puppy could be used as a way to backport the ubuntu updates to debian repos? It would be a great way to stiffen up debian again, right? Or better yet, pet both of the best in both realms, and obsolete the giant builds for one of a finer repose arf arf!

Update: I reported that shutdown and reboot would only restart X and that Pmount would not work, and that I could only use Xvesa.

Well I can still only use Xvesa but I ... er "fixed" the other issues for me. I ran the Xorgwizard using the shortcut in the menu... (before, even [ctrl]-[alt]-[bkspce] was restarting X ) That worked, tried Xorg again, all different res sizes, no go. Tried Xvesa and everything started to work as it should.. good too, I thought I had another mini-frisbee...

Loaded upup-476 retro from Cd for Full hard drive install.
If left to own devices boots up and can be installed ok.
If Used pfix=ram then scanning for puppy files on computer disk drive comes up with upup-476.sfs not found Dropping out to initial
ramdisk console.
Gparted goes into endless loop.
If flash disk with data left in usb port on installation then grub comes up with windows as 1, then fd0 as 2 and loading bootloader to hd on 3.
Clicking on any of them goes back to grub menu. The only cure to reformat and install again minus the flash drive.

agree with Aung:
Abiword write icon ceased to work; #exec abiword in console does!
Desktop icons changed but not persistent to reboot.
Then,
Samba shares working correctly to other wondows PCs.
after a wifi usb try, unable to detect any modem (etH0 was still there).

-If booting in Vesa Pmount dont work. I have only 3 ext3 Partitions and 1 VFAT Partition on the hd. Every Puppy till yet didnt had problems on this hd with this Partition.
If booting in Xorg however Pmoun works without any problems for the same HD.
-If booting in Vesa Puppy cant shutdown or reboot. Exit to prompt dont work also. For me it looks like that a click in the Menu for "reboot" or "shutdown" just restart the xserver.
In Xorg However shutdown, reboot and exit to prompt works.

I finally got around to doing a full install of Upup 4.76 on a P3 733mhz, 256mb ram (1gb swap) earlier tonight.Replaced Upup 4.71 alpha 7, since the drive was already partitioned wiping the drive and installing only took about ten minutes.

In my brief time so far, all of the basics worked out of the box.Puppy packages all installed fine but the Ubuntu packages seem to be a bit of hit or miss. Some work well and some have problems.

I downloaded Firefox 3.0.8 and used "trim the fat" and it wouldn't launch. Removed it and reinstalled as downloaded and it works now. Still think Firepup is faster though.

I have been using upup since Alpha 7. I'm using it now! It's the fastes I've seen to load on my Compaq Presario F750.
-AMD Athlon X2 (64)
-1 GB ram
-1280 x 800 display
-Atheros ar24xx wifi
-CD/DVD broken so i don't use it

It all worked so great out of the box, except for abiword and can't load a Openoffice .sfs, tried 2.2 and 3.01. I figure it will eventually be working or an alternative will arrive.

All of Tuxxx's programs work! Great games(Gnome)! Takes me back to the days of Fedora 3. I loved that system.

Fellow poster davids45 and suffering from the same problem with the Medion MD8818, suggested to try to boot with acpi=off.
Altho I don't like to loose the acpi functionality I gave it a try.
I can boot my Medion MD8818 now with alpha9.

I still demand that Barry finds a solution so I can boot with acpi=on again._________________Time savers:
Find packages in a snap and install using Puppy Package Manager (Menu).
Consult Wikka
Use peppyy's puppysearch

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